YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers Watsen Networks
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OPS netconf IETF This document presents three YANG 1.1 modules to support the configuration of TCP clients and TCP servers. The modules include basic parameters of a TCP connection relevant for client or server applications, as well as client configuration required for traversing proxies. The data models defined by these modules may be used directly (e.g., to define a specific TCP client or TCP server) or in conjunction with the configuration defined for higher level protocols that depend on TCP (e.g., SSH, TLS, etc.). Examples of higher level protocol configuration designed to be used in conjunction with this configuration are in RFCs 9644 and 9645.
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Table of Contents
  • .  Introduction
    • .  Relation to Other RFCs
    • .  Specification Language
    • .  Adherence to the NMDA
    • .  Conventions
  • .  The "ietf-tcp-common" Module
    • .  Data Model Overview
    • .  Example Usage
    • .  YANG Module
  • .  The "ietf-tcp-client" Module
    • .  Data Model Overview
    • .  Example Usage
    • .  YANG Module
  • .  The "ietf-tcp-server" Module
    • .  Data Model Overview
    • .  Example Usage
    • .  YANG Module
  • .  Security Considerations
    • .  Considerations for the "ietf-tcp-common" YANG Module
    • .  Considerations for the "ietf-tcp-client" YANG Module
    • .  Considerations for the "ietf-tcp-server" YANG Module
  • .  IANA Considerations
    • .  The IETF XML Registry
    • .  The YANG Module Names Registry
  • .  References
    • .  Normative References
    • .  Informative References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Authors' Addresses
Introduction This document defines three YANG 1.1 modules to support the configuration of TCP clients and TCP servers (TCP is defined in ). The data models defined by these modules may be used directly (e.g., to define a specific TCP client or TCP server) or in conjunction with the configuration defined for higher level protocols that depend on TCP (e.g., SSH, TLS, etc.). Examples of higher level protocol configuration designed to be used in conjunction with this configuration are in and . The modules focus on three different types of base TCP parameters that matter for TCP-based applications: First, the modules cover fundamental configuration of a TCP client or TCP server application, such as addresses and port numbers. Second, a reusable grouping enables modification of application-specific parameters for TCP connections, such as use of TCP keepalives. And third, client configuration for traversing proxies is included as well. In each case, the modules have a very narrow scope and focus on a minimum set of required parameters. Please be advised that while this document presents support for some TCP proxy techniques, there are other TCP proxy techniques that are not part of this document but could be added by augmenting the YANG module.
Relation to Other RFCs This document presents three YANG modules that are part of a collection of RFCs that work together to ultimately support the configuration of both the clients and servers of both the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and RESTCONF . The dependency relationship between the primary YANG groupings defined in the various RFCs is presented in the below diagram. In some cases, a document may define secondary groupings that introduce dependencies not illustrated in the diagram. The labels in the diagram are shorthand names for the defining RFCs. The citation references for shorthand names are provided below the diagram. Please note that the arrows in the diagram point from referencer to referenced. For example, the "crypto-types" RFC does not have any dependencies, whilst the "keystore" RFC depends on the "crypto-types" RFC. crypto-types ^ ^ / \ / \ truststore keystore ^ ^ ^ ^ | +---------+ | | | | | | | +------------+ | tcp-client-server | / | | ^ ^ ssh-client-server | | | | ^ tls-client-server | | | ^ ^ http-client-server | | | | | ^ | | | +-----+ +---------+ | | | | | | | | +-----------|--------|--------------+ | | | | | | | | +-----------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | netconf-client-server restconf-client-server Label in Diagram to RFC Mapping
Label in Diagram Reference
crypto-types
truststore
keystore
tcp-client-server RFC 9643
ssh-client-server
tls-client-server
http-client-server
netconf-client-server
restconf-client-server
Specification Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.
Adherence to the NMDA This document is compliant with the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) . It does not define any protocol accessible nodes that are "config false".
Conventions Various examples in this document use the XML encoding. Other encodings, such as JSON , could alternatively be used.
The "ietf-tcp-common" Module This section defines a YANG 1.1 module called "ietf-tcp-common". A high-level overview of the module is provided in . Examples illustrating the module's use are provided in ("Example Usage"). The YANG module itself is defined in .
Data Model Overview This section provides an overview of the "ietf-tcp-common" module in terms of its features and groupings.
Model Scope This document presents a common "grouping" statement for basic TCP connection parameters that matter to applications. It is "common" in that this grouping is used by both the "ietf-tcp-client" and "ietf-tcp-server" modules. In some TCP stacks, such parameters can also directly be set by an application using system calls, such as the sockets API. The base YANG data model in this document focuses on modeling TCP keepalives. This base model can be extended as needed.
Features The following diagram lists all the "feature" statements defined in the "ietf-tcp-common" module: Features: +-- keepalives-supported The diagram above uses syntax that is similar to but not defined in .
Groupings The "ietf-tcp-common" module defines the following "grouping" statement:
  • tcp-common-grouping
This grouping is presented in the following subsection.
The "tcp-common-grouping" Grouping The following tree diagram illustrates the "tcp-common-grouping" grouping: grouping tcp-common-grouping: +-- keepalives! {keepalives-supported}? +-- idle-time? uint16 +-- max-probes? uint16 +-- probe-interval? uint16 Comments:
  • The "keepalives" node is a "presence" container so that the mandatory descendant nodes do not imply that keepalives must be configured.
  • The "idle-time", "max-probes", and "probe-interval" nodes have the common meanings. Please see the YANG module in for details.
Protocol-Accessible Nodes The "ietf-tcp-common" module defines only "grouping" statements that are used by other modules to instantiate protocol-accessible nodes. Thus, this module, when implemented, does not itself define any protocol-accessible nodes.
Guidelines for Configuring TCP Keepalives Network stacks may include keepalives in their TCP implementations, although this practice is not universally implemented. If keepalives are included, mandates that the application MUST be able to turn them on or off for each TCP connection and that they MUST default to off. Keepalive mechanisms exist in many protocols. Depending on the protocol stack, TCP keepalives may only be one out of several alternatives. Which mechanism(s) to use depends on the use case and application requirements. If keepalives are needed by an application, it is RECOMMENDED that the liveness check happens only at the protocol layers that are meaningful to the application. A TCP keepalive mechanism SHOULD only be invoked in server applications that might otherwise hang indefinitely and consume resources unnecessarily if a client crashes or aborts a connection during a network failure . TCP keepalives may consume significant resources both in the network and in endpoints (e.g., battery power). In addition, frequent keepalives risk network congestion. The higher the frequency of keepalives, the higher the overhead. Given the cost of keepalives, parameters have to be configured carefully:
  • The default idle interval (leaf "idle-time") is two hours, i.e., 7200 seconds . A lower value MAY be configured, but idle intervals SHOULD NOT be smaller than 15 seconds. Longer idle intervals SHOULD be used when possible.
  • The maximum number of sequential keepalive probes that can fail (leaf "max-probes") trades off responsiveness and robustness against packet loss. ACK segments that contain no data are not reliably transmitted by TCP. Consequently, if a keepalive mechanism is implemented, it MUST NOT interpret failure to respond to any specific probe as a dead connection . Typically, a single-digit number should suffice.
  • TCP implementations may include a parameter for the number of seconds between TCP keepalive probes (leaf "probe-interval"). In order to avoid congestion, the time interval between probes MUST NOT be smaller than one second. Significantly longer intervals SHOULD be used. It is important to note that keepalive probes (or replies) can get dropped due to network congestion. Sending further probe messages into a congested path after a short interval, without backing off timers, could cause harm and result in a congestion collapse. Therefore, it is essential to pick a large, conservative value for this interval.
Example Usage This section presents an example showing the "tcp-common-grouping" grouping populated with some data. <!-- The outermost element below doesn't exist in the data model. --> <!-- It simulates if the "grouping" were a "container" instead. --> <tcp-common xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-common"> <keepalives> <idle-time>7200</idle-time> <max-probes>9</max-probes> <probe-interval>75</probe-interval> </keepalives> </tcp-common>
YANG Module The "ietf-tcp-common" YANG module references and . module ietf-tcp-common { yang-version 1.1; namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-common"; prefix tcpcmn; organization "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group and the IETF TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (TCPM) Working Group"; contact "WG Web: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tcpm WG List: NETCONF WG list <mailto:netconf@ietf.org> TCPM WG list <mailto:tcpm@ietf.org> Authors: Kent Watsen <mailto:kent+ietf@watsen.net> Michael Scharf <mailto:michael.scharf@hs-esslingen.de>"; description "This module define a reusable 'grouping' that is common to both TCP clients and TCP servers. This grouping statement is used by both the 'ietf-tcp-client' and 'ietf-tcp-server' modules. The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'NOT RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119) (RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. Copyright (c) 2024 IETF Trust and the persons identified as authors of the code. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject to the license terms contained in, the Revised BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). This version of this YANG module is part of RFC 9643 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9643); see the RFC itself for full legal notices."; revision 2024-10-10 { description "Initial version."; reference "RFC 9643: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers"; } // Features feature keepalives-supported { description "Indicates that keepalives are supported."; } // Groupings grouping tcp-common-grouping { description "A reusable grouping for configuring TCP parameters common to TCP connections as well as the operating system as a whole."; container keepalives { if-feature "keepalives-supported"; presence "Indicates that keepalives are enabled, aligning to the requirement in Section 3.8.4 of RFC 9293 that states keepalives are off by default."; description "Configures the keepalive policy to proactively test the aliveness of the TCP peer. An unresponsive TCP peer is dropped after approximately (idle-time + max-probes * probe-interval) seconds. Further guidance can be found in Section 2.1.5 of RFC 9643."; reference "RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)"; leaf idle-time { type uint16 { range "1..max"; } units "seconds"; default "7200"; description "Sets the amount of time after which a TCP-level probe message will be sent to test the aliveness of the TCP peer if no data has been received from the TCP peer. Two hours (7200 seconds) is a safe value, per Section 3.8.4 of RFC 9293."; reference "RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)"; } leaf max-probes { type uint16 { range "1..max"; } default "9"; description "Sets the maximum number of sequential keepalive probes that can fail to obtain a response from the TCP peer before assuming the TCP peer is no longer alive."; } leaf probe-interval { type uint16 { range "1..max"; } units "seconds"; default "75"; description "Sets the time interval between failed probes. The interval SHOULD be significantly longer than one second in order to avoid harm on a congested link."; } } // container keepalives } // grouping tcp-common-grouping }
The "ietf-tcp-client" Module This section defines a YANG 1.1 module called "ietf-tcp-client". A high-level overview of the module is provided in . Examples illustrating the module's use are provided in ("Example Usage"). The YANG module itself is defined in .
Data Model Overview This section provides an overview of the "ietf-tcp-client" module in terms of its features and groupings.
Features The following diagram lists all the "feature" statements defined in the "ietf-tcp-client" module: Features: +-- local-binding-supported +-- tcp-client-keepalives +-- proxy-connect +-- socks4-supported {proxy-connect}? +-- socks4a-supported {proxy-connect}? +-- socks5-supported {proxy-connect}? +-- socks5-gss-api {socks5-supported}? +-- socks5-username-password {socks5-supported}? Comments:
  • The "local-binding-supported" feature indicates that the server supports configuring local bindings (i.e., the local address and local port) for TCP clients.
  • The "tcp-client-keepalives" feature indicates that TCP keepalive parameters are configurable for TCP clients on the server implementing this feature.
  • The "proxy-connect" feature indicates the TCP client supports connecting through TCP proxies.
  • The "socks4-supported" feature indicates the TCP client supports Socks4-based proxies.
  • The "socks4a-supported" feature indicates the TCP client supports Socks4a-based proxies. The difference between Socks4 and Socks4a is that Socks4a enables the "remote-address" to be specified using a hostname, in addition to an IP address.
  • The "socks5-supported" feature indicates the TCP client supports Socks5-based proxies.
  • The "socks5-gss-api" feature indicates that the server, when acting as a TCP client, supports authenticating to a SOCKS Version 5 proxy server using Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) credentials.
  • The "socks5-username-password" feature indicates that the server, when acting as a TCP client, supports authenticating to a SOCKS Version 5 proxy server using "username" and "password" credentials."
The diagram above uses syntax that is similar to but not defined in .
Groupings The "ietf-tcp-client" module defines the following "grouping" statement:
  • tcp-client-grouping
This grouping is presented in the following subsection.
The "tcp-client-grouping" Grouping The following tree diagram illustrates the "tcp-client-grouping" grouping: grouping tcp-client-grouping: +-- remote-address inet:host +-- remote-port? inet:port-number +-- local-address? inet:ip-address | {local-binding-supported}? +-- local-port? inet:port-number | {local-binding-supported}? +-- proxy-server! {proxy-connect}? | +-- (proxy-type) | +--:(socks4) {socks4-supported}? | | +-- socks4-parameters | | +-- remote-address inet:ip-address | | +-- remote-port? inet:port-number | +--:(socks4a) {socks4a-supported}? | | +-- socks4a-parameters | | +-- remote-address inet:host | | +-- remote-port? inet:port-number | +--:(socks5) {socks5-supported}? | +-- socks5-parameters | +-- remote-address inet:host | +-- remote-port? inet:port-number | +-- authentication-parameters! | +-- (auth-type) | +--:(gss-api) {socks5-gss-api}? | | +-- gss-api | +--:(username-password) | {socks5-username-password}? | +-- username-password | +-- username string | +---u ct:password-grouping +---u tcpcmn:tcp-common-grouping Comments:
  • The "remote-address" node, which is mandatory, may be configured as an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or a hostname.
  • The "remote-port" leaf is defined with neither a "default" nor a "mandatory" statement. YANG modules using this grouping SHOULD refine the grouping with a "default" statement, when the port number is well-known (e.g., a port number allocated by IANA), or with a "mandatory" statement, if a port number needs to always be configured. The SHOULD can be ignored when the port number is neither well-known nor mandatory to configure, such as might be the case when this grouping is used by another grouping.
  • The "local-address" node, which is enabled by the "local-binding-supported" feature (), may be configured as an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or a wildcard value.
  • The "local-port" node, which is enabled by the "local-binding-supported" feature (), is not mandatory. Its default value is "0", indicating that the operating system can pick an arbitrary port number.
  • The "proxy-server" node is enabled by a "feature" statement and, for servers that enable it, is a "presence" container so that the descendant "mandatory true" choice node does not imply that the proxy-server node must be configured. The proxy-server node uses a "choice" statement to allow one of several types of proxies to be configured. The choices presented in this document include Socks4, Socks4a, and Socks5, each enabled by a YANG feature (see ). Other proxy types may be added by future work.
  • This grouping uses the "password-grouping" grouping discussed in .
  • This grouping uses the "tcp-common-grouping" grouping discussed in .
Protocol-Accessible Nodes The "ietf-tcp-client" module defines only "grouping" statements that are used by other modules to instantiate protocol-accessible nodes. Thus, this module, when implemented, does not itself define any protocol-accessible nodes.
Example Usage This section presents two examples showing the "tcp-client-grouping" grouping populated with some data. This example shows a TCP client configured to not connect via a proxy: <!-- The outermost element below doesn't exist in the data model. --> <!-- It simulates if the "grouping" were a "container" instead. --> <tcp-client xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-client"> <remote-address>www.example.com</remote-address> <remote-port>8443</remote-port> <local-address>192.0.2.2</local-address> <local-port>12345</local-port> <keepalives> <idle-time>7200</idle-time> <max-probes>9</max-probes> <probe-interval>75</probe-interval> </keepalives> </tcp-client> This example shows a TCP client configured to connect via a proxy. <!-- The outermost element below doesn't exist in the data model. --> <!-- It simulates if the "grouping" were a "container" instead. --> <tcp-client xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-client"> <remote-address>www.example.com</remote-address> <remote-port>8443</remote-port> <local-address>192.0.2.2</local-address> <local-port>12345</local-port> <proxy-server> <socks5-parameters> <remote-address>proxy.example.com</remote-address> <remote-port>1080</remote-port> <authentication-parameters> <username-password> <username>foobar</username> <cleartext-password>secret</cleartext-password> </username-password> </authentication-parameters> </socks5-parameters> </proxy-server> <keepalives> <idle-time>7200</idle-time> <max-probes>9</max-probes> <probe-interval>75</probe-interval> </keepalives> </tcp-client>
YANG Module The "ietf-tcp-client" YANG module references , , , , , , , and . module ietf-tcp-client { yang-version 1.1; namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-client"; prefix tcpc; import ietf-inet-types { prefix inet; reference "RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types"; } import ietf-crypto-types { prefix ct; reference "RFC 9640: YANG Data Types and Groupings for Cryptography"; } import ietf-tcp-common { prefix tcpcmn; reference "RFC 9643: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers"; } organization "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group and the IETF TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (TCPM) Working Group"; contact "WG Web: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tcpm WG List: NETCONF WG list <mailto:netconf@ietf.org> TCPM WG list <mailto:tcpm@ietf.org> Authors: Kent Watsen <mailto:kent+ietf@watsen.net> Michael Scharf <mailto:michael.scharf@hs-esslingen.de>"; description "This module defines reusable groupings for TCP clients that can be used as a basis for specific TCP client instances. The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'NOT RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119) (RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. Copyright (c) 2024 IETF Trust and the persons identified as authors of the code. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject to the license terms contained in, the Revised BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). This version of this YANG module is part of RFC 9643 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9643); see the RFC itself for full legal notices."; revision 2024-10-10 { description "Initial version."; reference "RFC 9643: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers"; } // Features feature local-binding-supported { description "Indicates that the server supports configuring local bindings (i.e., the local address and local port) for TCP clients."; } feature tcp-client-keepalives { description "TCP keepalive parameters are configurable for TCP clients on the server implementing this feature."; reference "RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)"; } feature proxy-connect { description "Indicates the TCP client supports connecting through TCP proxies."; } feature socks4-supported { if-feature "proxy-connect"; description "Indicates the TCP client supports Socks4-based proxies."; reference "SOCKS Proceedings: 1992 Usenix Security Symposium"; } feature socks4a-supported { if-feature "proxy-connect"; description "Indicates the TCP client supports Socks4a-based proxies."; reference "OpenSSH message: SOCKS 4A: A Simple Extension to SOCKS 4 Protocol <https://www.openssh.com/txt/socks4a.protocol>"; } feature socks5-supported { if-feature "proxy-connect"; description "Indicates the TCP client supports Socks5-based proxies."; reference "RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5"; } feature socks5-gss-api { if-feature "socks5-supported"; description "Indicates that the server, when acting as a TCP client, supports authenticating to a SOCKS Version 5 proxy server using GSS-API credentials."; reference "RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5"; } feature socks5-username-password { if-feature "socks5-supported"; description "Indicates that the server, when acting as a TCP client, supports authenticating to a SOCKS Version 5 proxy server using 'username' and 'password' credentials."; reference "RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5"; } // Groupings grouping tcp-client-grouping { description "A reusable grouping for configuring a TCP client. Note that this grouping uses fairly typical descendant node names such that a stack of 'uses' statements will have name conflicts. It is intended that the consuming data model will resolve the issue (e.g., by wrapping the 'uses' statement in a container called 'tcp-client-parameters'). This model purposely does not do this itself so as to provide maximum flexibility to consuming models."; leaf remote-address { type inet:host; mandatory true; description "The IP address or hostname of the remote peer to establish a connection with. If a domain name is configured, then the DNS resolution should happen on each connection attempt. If the DNS resolution results in multiple IP addresses, the IP addresses are tried according to local preference order until a connection has been established or until all IP addresses have failed."; } leaf remote-port { type inet:port-number; description "The port number of the remote TCP server."; } leaf local-address { if-feature "local-binding-supported"; type inet:ip-address; description "The local IP address/interface to bind to for when connecting to the remote peer. INADDR_ANY ('0.0.0.0') or INADDR6_ANY ('0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0' a.k.a. '::') MAY be used to explicitly indicate the implicit default, which the server can bind to any IPv4 or IPv6 address."; } leaf local-port { if-feature "local-binding-supported"; type inet:port-number; default "0"; description "The local IP port number to bind to for when connecting to the remote peer. The port number '0', which is the default value, indicates that any available local port number may be used."; } container proxy-server { if-feature "proxy-connect"; presence "Indicates that a proxy connection has been configured. Present so that the mandatory descendant nodes do not imply that this node must be configured."; choice proxy-type { mandatory true; description "Selects a proxy connection protocol."; case socks4 { if-feature "socks4-supported"; container socks4-parameters { leaf remote-address { type inet:ip-address; mandatory true; description "The IP address of the proxy server."; } leaf remote-port { type inet:port-number; default "1080"; description "The IP port number for the proxy server."; } description "Parameters for connecting to a TCP-based proxy server using the SOCKS4 protocol."; reference "SOCKS Proceedings: 1992 Usenix Security Symposium"; } } case socks4a { if-feature "socks4a-supported"; container socks4a-parameters { leaf remote-address { type inet:host; mandatory true; description "The IP address or hostname of the proxy server."; } leaf remote-port { type inet:port-number; default "1080"; description "The IP port number for the proxy server."; } description "Parameters for connecting to a TCP-based proxy server using the SOCKS4a protocol."; reference "SOCKS Proceedings: 1992 Usenix Security Symposium OpenSSH message: SOCKS 4A: A Simple Extension to SOCKS 4 Protocol <https://www.openssh.com/txt/socks4a.protocol>"; } } case socks5 { if-feature "socks5-supported"; container socks5-parameters { leaf remote-address { type inet:host; mandatory true; description "The IP address or hostname of the proxy server."; } leaf remote-port { type inet:port-number; default "1080"; description "The IP port number for the proxy server."; } container authentication-parameters { presence "Indicates that an authentication mechanism has been configured. Present so that the mandatory descendant nodes do not imply that this node must be configured."; description "A container for SOCKS Version 5 authentication mechanisms. A complete list of methods is defined at: <https://www.iana.org/assignments/socks-methods>."; reference "RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5"; choice auth-type { mandatory true; description "A choice amongst supported SOCKS Version 5 authentication mechanisms."; case gss-api { if-feature "socks5-gss-api"; container gss-api { description "Contains GSS-API configuration. Defines as an empty container to enable specific GSS-API configuration to be augmented in by future modules."; reference "RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5 RFC 2743: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1"; } } case username-password { if-feature "socks5-username-password"; container username-password { leaf username { type string; mandatory true; description "The 'username' value to use for client identification."; } uses ct:password-grouping { description "The password to be used for client authentication."; } description "Contains username/password configuration."; reference "RFC 1929: Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5"; } } } } description "Parameters for connecting to a TCP-based proxy server using the SOCKS5 protocol."; reference "RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5"; } } } description "Proxy server settings."; } uses tcpcmn:tcp-common-grouping { refine "keepalives" { if-feature "tcp-client-keepalives"; description "An 'if-feature' statement so that implementations can choose to support TCP client keepalives."; } } } }
The "ietf-tcp-server" Module This section defines a YANG 1.1 module called "ietf-tcp-server". A high-level overview of the module is provided in . Examples illustrating the module's use are provided in ("Example Usage"). The YANG module itself is defined in .
Data Model Overview This section provides an overview of the "ietf-tcp-server" module in terms of its features and groupings.
Features The following diagram lists all the "feature" statements defined in the "ietf-tcp-server" module: Features: +-- tcp-server-keepalives The diagram above uses syntax that is similar to but not defined in .
Groupings The "ietf-tcp-server" module defines the following "grouping" statement:
  • tcp-server-grouping
This grouping is presented in the following subsection.
The "tcp-server-grouping" Grouping The following tree diagram illustrates the "tcp-server-grouping" grouping: grouping tcp-server-grouping: +-- local-bind* [local-address] | +-- local-address inet:ip-address | +-- local-port? inet:port-number +---u tcpcmn:tcp-common-grouping Comments:
  • The "local-address" node, which is mandatory, may be configured as an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or a wildcard value.
  • The "local-port" leaf is defined with neither a "default" nor a "mandatory" statement. YANG modules using this grouping SHOULD refine the grouping with a "default" statement, when the port number is well-known (e.g., a port number allocated by IANA), or with a "mandatory" statement, if a port number needs to always be configured. The SHOULD can be ignored when the port number is neither well-known nor mandatory to configure, such as might be the case when this grouping is used by another grouping.
  • This grouping uses the "tcp-common-grouping" grouping discussed in .
Protocol-Accessible Nodes The "ietf-tcp-server" module defines only "grouping" statements that are used by other modules to instantiate protocol-accessible nodes. Thus, this module, when implemented, does not itself define any protocol-accessible nodes.
Example Usage This section presents an example showing the "tcp-server-grouping" grouping populated with some data. <!-- The outermost element below doesn't exist in the data model. --> <!-- It simulates if the "grouping" were a "container" instead. --> <tcp-server xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-server"> <local-bind> <local-address>192.0.2.2</local-address> <local-port>49152</local-port> </local-bind> <keepalives> <idle-time>7200</idle-time> <max-probes>9</max-probes> <probe-interval>75</probe-interval> </keepalives> </tcp-server>
YANG Module The "ietf-tcp-server" YANG module references and . module ietf-tcp-server { yang-version 1.1; namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-server"; prefix tcps; import ietf-inet-types { prefix inet; reference "RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types"; } import ietf-tcp-common { prefix tcpcmn; reference "RFC 9643: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers"; } organization "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group and the IETF TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (TCPM) Working Group"; contact "WG Web: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tcpm WG List: NETCONF WG list <mailto:netconf@ietf.org> TCPM WG list <mailto:tcpm@ietf.org> Authors: Kent Watsen <mailto:kent+ietf@watsen.net> Michael Scharf <mailto:michael.scharf@hs-esslingen.de>"; description "This module defines reusable groupings for TCP servers that can be used as a basis for specific TCP server instances. Copyright (c) 2024 IETF Trust and the persons identified as authors of the code. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject to the license terms contained in, the Revised BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). This version of this YANG module is part of RFC 9643 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9643); see the RFC itself for full legal notices."; revision 2024-10-10 { description "Initial version."; reference "RFC 9643: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers"; } // Features feature tcp-server-keepalives { description "TCP keepalive parameters are configurable for TCP servers on the server implementing this feature."; reference "RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)"; } // Groupings grouping tcp-server-grouping { description "A reusable grouping for configuring a TCP server. Note that this grouping uses fairly typical descendant node names such that a stack of 'uses' statements will have name conflicts. It is intended that the consuming data model will resolve the issue (e.g., by wrapping the 'uses' statement in a container called 'tcp-server-parameters'). This model purposely does not do this itself so as to provide maximum flexibility to consuming models."; list local-bind { key "local-address"; min-elements 1; description "A list of bind (listen) points for this server instance. A server instance may have multiple bind points to support, e.g., the same port in different address families or different ports in the same address family."; leaf local-address { type inet:ip-address; description "The local IP address to listen on for incoming TCP client connections. To configure listening on all IPv4 addresses, the value must be '0.0.0.0' (INADDR_ANY). To configure listening on all IPv6 addresses, the value must be '::' (INADDR6_ANY)."; } leaf local-port { type inet:port-number; description "The local port number to listen on for incoming TCP client connections."; } } uses tcpcmn:tcp-common-grouping { refine "keepalives" { if-feature "tcp-server-keepalives"; description "An 'if-feature' statement so that implementations can choose to support TCP server keepalives."; } } } }
Security Considerations The three YANG modules in this document define groupings and will not be deployed as standalone modules. Their security implications may be context-dependent based on their use in other modules. The designers of modules that import these groupings must conduct their own analysis of the security considerations.
Considerations for the "ietf-tcp-common" YANG Module This section is modeled after the template defined in . The "ietf-tcp-common" YANG module defines "grouping" statements that are designed to be accessed via YANG-based management protocols, such as NETCONF and RESTCONF . Both of these protocols have mandatory-to-implement secure transport layers (e.g., Secure Shell (SSH) , TLS , and QUIC ) and mandatory-to-implement mutual authentication. The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM) provides the means to restrict access for particular users to a preconfigured subset of all available protocol operations and content. Please be aware that this YANG module uses groupings from other YANG modules that define nodes that may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. Please review the security considerations for dependent YANG modules for information as to which nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. None of the readable data nodes defined in this YANG module are considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. The NACM "default-deny-all" extension has not been set for any data nodes defined in this module. None of the writable data nodes defined in this YANG module are considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. The NACM "default-deny-write" extension has not been set for any data nodes defined in this module. This module does not define any RPCs, actions, or notifications, and thus, the security considerations for such are not provided here.
Considerations for the "ietf-tcp-client" YANG Module This section is modeled after the template defined in . The "ietf-tcp-client" YANG module defines "grouping" statements that are designed to be accessed via YANG-based management protocols, such as NETCONF and RESTCONF . Both of these protocols have mandatory-to-implement secure transport layers (e.g., Secure Shell (SSH) , TLS , and QUIC ) and mandatory-to-implement mutual authentication. The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM) provides the means to restrict access for particular users to a preconfigured subset of all available protocol operations and content. Please be aware that this YANG module uses groupings from other YANG modules that define nodes that may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. Please review the security considerations for dependent YANG modules for information as to which nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. One readable data node defined in this YANG module may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. This node is as follows:
  • The "proxy-server/socks5-parameters/authentication-parameters/username-password/password" node:
    • The "password" node defined in the "tcp-client-grouping" grouping is defined using the "password-grouping" grouping presented in . This grouping enables both cleartext and encrypted passwords to be configured. As the referenced document states, configuration of cleartext passwords is NOT RECOMMENDED. However, in the case cleartext values are configured, this node is additionally sensitive to read operations such that, in normal use cases, it should never be returned to a client. For this reason, the NACM "default-deny-all" extension has been applied to it.
None of the writable data nodes defined in this YANG module are considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. The NACM "default-deny-write" extension has not been set for any data nodes defined in this module. This module does not define any RPCs, actions, or notifications, and thus, the security considerations for such are not provided here. Implementations are RECOMMENDED to implement the "local-binding-supported" feature for cryptographically secure protocols so as to enable more granular ingress/egress firewall rule bases. It is NOT RECOMMENDED to implement this feature for unsecure protocols, as per .
Considerations for the "ietf-tcp-server" YANG Module This section is modeled after the template defined in . The "ietf-tcp-server" YANG module defines "grouping" statements that are designed to be accessed via YANG-based management protocols, such as NETCONF and RESTCONF . Both of these protocols have mandatory-to-implement secure transport layers (e.g., Secure Shell (SSH) , TLS , and QUIC ) and mandatory-to-implement mutual authentication. The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM) provides the means to restrict access for particular users to a preconfigured subset of all available protocol operations and content. Please be aware that this YANG module uses groupings from other YANG modules that define nodes that may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. Please review the security considerations for dependent YANG modules for information as to which nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. None of the readable data nodes defined in this YANG module are considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. The NACM "default-deny-all" extension has not been set for any data nodes defined in this module. None of the writable data nodes defined in this YANG module are considered sensitive or vulnerable in network environments. The NACM "default-deny-write" extension has not been set for any data nodes defined in this module. This module does not define any RPCs, actions, or notifications, and thus, the security considerations for such are not provided here.
IANA Considerations
The IETF XML Registry IANA has registered the following URI in the "ns" registry of the "IETF XML Registry" .
URI:
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-common
Registrant Contact:
The IESG
XML:
N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.
URI:
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-client
Registrant Contact:
The IESG
XML:
N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.
URI:
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-server
Registrant Contact:
The IESG
XML:
N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.
The YANG Module Names Registry IANA has registered the following three YANG modules in the "YANG Module Names" registry .
Name:
ietf-tcp-common
Namespace:
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-common
Prefix:
tcpcmn
Reference:
RFC 9643
Name:
ietf-tcp-client
Namespace:
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-client
Prefix:
tcpc
Reference:
RFC 9643
Name:
ietf-tcp-server
Namespace:
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-tcp-server
Prefix:
tcps
Reference:
RFC 9643
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Authors' Addresses Watsen Networks
kent+ietf@watsen.net
Hochschule Esslingen
University of Applied Sciences Kanalstr. 33 73728 Esslingen am Neckar Germany michael.scharf@hs-esslingen.de